Enhanced Waste Heat Recovery from Low-grade Heat Sources Using a Novel Supercritical Power Cycle

与传统的余热回收技术相比，GRANEX循环具有更高的热效率、更好的经济性和更强的稳健性。如果在全国范围内部署，以回收全国10%的废热，它将减少900万吨的温室气体排放，约占全国年排放量的1.6%。这相当于64.8万座房屋或200万辆汽车一年的二氧化碳排放量。拟议的研究将使澳大利亚处于废热回收领域研究和开发活动的前列，并显然将有助于联邦政府在国家研究优先事项1--一个环境可持续的澳大利亚--方面的努力。

Compared with conventional technologies for waste heat recovery, GRANEX cycle offers higher thermal efficiencies, better economics and a greater degree of robustness. If deployed ascross the country to recover even 10% of the nation's waste heat, it would reduce greenhouse emissions by 9 mega tonne which is roughly 1.6% of the annual national emissions. That is equivalent to the yearly CO2 emissions from 648,000 houses or 2 million cars. The proposed research will place Australia within the forefront of the research and development activities in the field of waste heat recovery and will clearly contribute to the Federal Government’s effort in the National Research Priority 1, An Environmentally Sustainable Australia.